MultiMedia Metadata Management

4M: an Infrastructure for MultiMedia Metadata Management
based on Semantic Web technology.

- 4M consists of five main co-operating units
- feature extraction from multimedia objects

- database management
- algorithms and annotations handling, and integration.

4M is based on the most promising existing tools, open-source software,

java-based implementation and multimedia metadata standards.
Metadata are coded according to MPEG-7 standard.